This research investigated responses of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction to the presence of a chemically inert Pt wire in solution. Experiments showed that connecting the Pt wire to a neutral ground caused a spontaneous drastic shift in the redox potential and might even induce complex behavior. Characterizations using an unstirred ferriin solution demonstrated the formation of a red colored propagating front at the grounded Pt wire, suggesting the reduction of ferriin to ferroin. Measurements with different combinations of electrodes in both stirred and reaction-diffusion media further confirmed the reduction of BZ metal catalysts at the Pt wire and the accompanying oxidation reaction at the reference electrode. The observed drastic change in redox potential and oscillation waveform can be understood based on the passive reduction reaction at the indicator electrode that is connected to the reference electrode through a potential meter. The obtained influence can be further manipulated by adding a resistor between the Pt wire and the neutral ground, making this convenient perturbation method attractive for the study of redox chemical reaction dynamics.
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July 2022
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July 08 2022
Drastic effects of an inert Pt wire on the redox behavior of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
Alexander Tang
;
Alexander Tang
(Investigation, Writing – original draft)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor
, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada
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Jichang Wang
Jichang Wang
a)
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor
, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada
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Note: This article is part of the Focus Issue, From Chemical Oscillations to Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics: Dedicated to Richard J. Field on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday.
Chaos 32, 073111 (2022)
Article history
Received:
April 11 2022
Accepted:
June 20 2022
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Alexander Tang, Jichang Wang; Drastic effects of an inert Pt wire on the redox behavior of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. Chaos 1 July 2022; 32 (7): 073111. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095531
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